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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 1520 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Raised Bill No. 300 |
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| 6 | 6 | | February Session, 2020 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 1520 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | (ENV) |
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| 19 | 19 | | AN ACT CONCERNING TH E RECYCLING AND DISPOSAL OF SMOKE |
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| 20 | 20 | | DETECTORS. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 22 | 22 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 24 | 24 | | Section 1. (Effective from passage) Not later than January 1, 2021, the 1 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection shall submit a 2 |
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| 26 | 26 | | report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general 3 |
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| 27 | 27 | | statutes, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly 4 |
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| 28 | 28 | | having cognizance of matters relating to the environment concerning: 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) Current best practices for residents of the state to dispose of or 6 |
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| 30 | 30 | | recycle residential smoke detectors, (2) any hazardous waste concerns 7 |
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| 31 | 31 | | that arise from the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 8 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (3) achieved or estimated current state rates for the proper disposal or 9 |
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| 33 | 33 | | recycling of residential smoke detectors, (4) the efficacy of extended 10 |
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| 34 | 34 | | producer responsibility programs to yield higher rates of proper 11 |
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| 35 | 35 | | disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors than are currently 12 |
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| 36 | 36 | | achieved or estimated in the state, (5) legislative recommendations 13 |
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| 37 | 37 | | concerning the disposal or recycling of residential smoke detectors, 14 |
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| 38 | 38 | | including, but not limited to, components of any recommended 15 |
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| 39 | 39 | | extended producer responsibility program for such smoke detectors 16 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Raised Bill No. 300 |
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| 44 | 44 | | LCO No. 1520 2 of 2 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and any consumer awareness efforts for the proper disposal or recycling 17 |
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| 47 | 47 | | of residential smoke detectors. For purposes of this section, "residential 18 |
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| 48 | 48 | | smoke detector" means any battery operated or plug-in smoke detector 19 |
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| 49 | 49 | | intended for use in a residential dwelling, any carbon monoxide 20 |
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| 50 | 50 | | detector intended for use in a residential dwelling and any smoke 21 |
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| 51 | 51 | | detector and carbon monoxide detector combination intended for use in 22 |
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| 52 | 52 | | a residential dwelling. 23 |
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| 53 | 53 | | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following |
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| 54 | 54 | | sections: |
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| 56 | 56 | | Section 1 from passage New section |
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| 58 | 58 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 59 | 59 | | To require an assessment of the need to implement an extended |
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| 60 | 60 | | producer responsibility program for residential smoke detectors. |
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| 62 | 62 | | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except |
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| 63 | 63 | | that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not |
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| 64 | 64 | | underlined.] |
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